Launch
Students will explore a nature-inspired pop-up market, notice how products and displays attract buyers, gather sensory evidence from nature, and record first product ideas that connect personal interests to a real audience.
Days 1 - 2
🛍️ Nature Pop-Up Notice Walk
Launch 90m
🍃 Nature Sketch Hunt Card
Deliverable 90m
Research & Empathy
Students will gather evidence from real shoppers and a local maker, record what people notice and need in a market, and turn those observations into an empathy artifact that will guide later product and storefront choices.
Days 3 - 5
👂 Shopper Questions and Notice Cards
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
🏪 Maker Visit Observation Map
Community Experience 90m
🧠 Empathy Poster Revision Round
Deliverable 90m
Define & Ideate
Students will turn research from earlier interviews, observations, and maker visits into a simple design brief, generate several different nature-inspired product ideas, and use peer feedback plus class voting to choose a promising direction for prototyping.
Days 6 - 8
🧠 User Needs and HMW Chart
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
✏️ Three Nature Product Sketches
Project Work 105m
🗳️ Idea Gallery and Choice Board
Deliverable 90m
Prototype & Present
Students will build and test low-fidelity versions of their nature-inspired products, gather feedback from a new user, revise both their product and marketing communication, and prepare a short stakeholder-facing share-out that explains how evidence shaped their design choices.
Days 9 - 11
🧰 Prototype Tools and Feedback Moves
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🪵 First Prototype and User Test
Project Work 90m
🖼️ Revision Board and Stakeholder Share
Deliverable 90m
Showcase
Students will present their finished nature-inspired products, marketing materials, and storefront choices to families, community visitors, and a local small business partner, then explain how feedback and observation shaped their final decisions for a real audience.
Day 12
🛍️ Nature Market Booth Showcase
Assessment 90m